A graduate of Vassar and MICA, Holman uses plants in his drawings to explore physical and internal space—flowers as memories, catalysts, and maps through trauma toward renewal. At Catwalk, he is developing Wish I were there, wish I were here, a series of postcard drawings creating a dialogue between his student self and his present self, bridging past and present in search of healing and hope.

https://www.jspenceholman.com/

Affiliation: Vassar

Sequoia Sellinger and Sarah Rossman are developing Next Year in Connecticut!, a musical love letter to dysfunctional families that explores how mental illness hijacks family systems, transforming relationships, and redefining normalcy. NYIC! features forbidden romance, Brisketgate, a dog shiva, an Exodus tap dance number, and hey, this might be the year that Elijah (the prophet) shows up! During their residency at Catwalk, they are excited to refine their use of the ensemble in both the text and the music to reflect the push and pull characters feel between individual identity and group identity. 

Websites:  For our show: https://www.nextyearinconnecticut.com  https://www.sequoiasellinger.com  https://www.sarahrossman.com  Instagram:  @leonard.bernstein69 @sarahrossmaam 

Affiliation: NYU

An award-winning architect and researcher, Sattler brings expertise in environmental design and hydrologic systems to her residency. At Catwalk, she translates dispersion patterns from the Hudson River PCBs Superfund Site into topographic watercolor studies, which she then uses to train AI models, extending her internationally exhibited work at the intersection of ecology, architecture, and technology.

https://meredith-sattler.net/

Affiliation: Vassar

During her residency, Del Rio Solorzano is drafting Limerence Island, a dystopian feature film set in a female-led society where romance is absent and men are relegated to labor and reproduction. By reimagining social structures through speculative fiction, her work questions how cultures define and constrain expressions of love and attraction.

https://christiandelrio.com/home

Affiliation: Vassar

During her residency, author Jean Zimmerman will return to Catwalk to revise her forthcoming memoir, Heartwood, Woundwood, and Ladytrees: An Accidental Arborist Finds Joy and Courage in the Tree World (Broadleaf Books, 2026). The book traces her journey from writer to Certified Arborist, exploring personal reinvention, the cultural history of American forests, and her experience living with ALS—a story meant to offer strength and connection to others facing serious illness.

Affiliation: Columbia

McAdory will continue developing a novel about a team of art laborers sent upstate to install a massive debut exhibition at a mysterious new indoor-outdoor museum complex bordering a chronic Lyme disease colony. His sharp, witty prose explores themes of work, art, and disorientation in contemporary life. McAdory’s writing has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Paris Review, The Drift, and more.

https://www.paulmcadory.com/

Affiliation: Columbia

During her time at Catwalk, Wambugu will complete her second novel No Use, which follows a young woman expelled from an Ivy League university as she navigates love, ambition, and identity in New York City. She will also revise a collection of short stories featuring characters living at the fringes of society, whose humor and detachment reveal the absurdities of modern life.

Affiliation: Columbia

Building on field recordings gathered during his previous Catwalk residency, Gekoskie will compose a new solo percussion work for timpani and interactive electronics, commissioned by percussionist Emma Kieselhorst and premiering at the 2025 Cortona Sessions in the Netherlands. His work reflects the interplay between technology, sound, and human emotion, continuing his exploration of the absurd and the profound in modern experience.

Affiliation: Penn State